Infraestructuras autónomas para un Internet libreBackbone 409http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/index.es.htmlBackbone 409ikiwiki2014-09-06T11:24:51ZReport on the meetinghttp://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/news/report/index.es.html2014-08-13T08:00:45Z2014-08-09T22:00:00Z
<p><a href="http://backbone409.calafou.org/">Backbone 409</a> happened in
<a href="https://calafou.org/">Calafou</a>, near Barcelona in early June 2014.
Started as a small meeting, it finally drew little less than 150
practitioners for two days of intensive conversations sometimes happening in
4 venues consecutively. The high response and the good lineup of local and
international <a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./news/participants/index.es.html">initiatives</a> showed the need for hacker spaces
where anti-capitalist politics is the baseline.</p>
<p>The first thing participants highlighted was the good atmosphere. Many came
a week before to help building up for the conference and installed
infrastructure such as toilets, windows, electricity, lighting, and of
course Internet. It was evident that autonomous infrastructures are needed
and we have to construct them from the ground up. This contributed to the
feeling of ownership of the venue and collaboration connected participants.</p>
<p>The meeting was an opportunity to bridge Spanish and English speaking
circuits of techno-activists, enabled by the superb simultaneous
interpretation of the <a href="https://coati.pimienta.org/">Coati</a> collective and
their gear. This was not fully exploited but still many links were
established. A highlight was the scene reports on the past and present from
Italy, Netherlands, Hungary, Catalonia, Germany, and Mexico (in order of
appearance).</p>
<p>Developers of privacy-oriented operating systems like
<a href="https://www.freepto.mx/en/">Freepto</a>, <a href="https://subgraph.com/sgos/index.en.html">Subgraph
OS</a> and
<a href="https://tails.boum.org/">Tails</a> met each other and their (potential)
users, discussing features to be adopted from each others’ codebases. In
addition to North European and North American projects, operators of
autonomous servers such as <a href="http://espora.org/">Espora</a> (Mexico) and
<a href="https://espiv.org/">Espiv</a> (Greece) exchanged experiences and best
practices. <a href="https://sarava.org/">Sarava</a> (Brazil) tech collective reported
on the
<a href="https://www.sarava.org/en/content/sarav%C3%A1s-server-had-its-hard-disks-seized-investigation-representative-federal-public-prosecu">seizure</a>
of their server and a 24 hour “<a href="https://cryptorave.org/">cryptorave</a>” with
2000 attendants organised in São Paolo. The keysigning party
(a.k.a. certification meeting) was surrounded by much debate so that <a href="https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices">best
practices</a>
and recommended <a href="https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf/commit/adb7536149263a02f7017b284e5cca07cc4331c1">configuration
files</a>
received major updates, while alternatives to OpenPGP like
<a href="https://github.com/stef/pbp">PBP</a> were proposed.</p>
<p>The roundtables on the four focus topics (<a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/resilienthosting/index.es.html">resilient
hosting</a>, <a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/decentralisation/index.es.html">decentralised
architectures</a>, <a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/trustedservices/index.es.html">project
sustainability</a>, and <a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/cryptomasses/index.es.html">usable
cryptography</a>) offered an overview with
the participation of 5-6 representatives of relevant projects and a
moderator. These were good for introducing the major discussions and actors
in the problem space but usually not enough to really push the discussions
to a new level. We hope that once the topics are identified, such
discussions will evolve during the next conferences like
<a href="https://interference.io/">Interference</a> and
<a href="https://fscons.org/">FSCONS</a>, as well as the various hackmeetings. Other
program points included a look at the relationship between the tech industry
and the human geography of cities (in correspondence with the controversy
about Google buses), an outdoor survivor workshop, a reading of the <a href="http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=8c3d92d6afc907ee2e8fefb6892191a2">Liquid
Surveillance</a>
book, project presentations and many more. Finally, in terms of developing
the infrastructure of the global network, the idea of Virtual Internet
Exchange Points was proposed as a peering space for VPN providers.</p>
<p>Since Calafou is in the middle of the forest, accommodation was provided
on-site (campsite and dormitory) and food was prepared with the help of
participants. On the upside, the killer application of the catering was a
donation-based <a href="https://openwrt.org/">OpenWRT</a> cocktail bar which should be
replicated in other meetings. On the downside, we ran out of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate">Club
Mate</a> on the second day because of
logistical problems. Please send us more
<a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-June/000568.html">documentation</a>.</p>
Long descriptions of the roundtableshttp://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/news/longdescriptions/index.es.html2014-08-12T18:37:30Z2014-08-08T22:00:00Z
<p>You can now read the long descriptions of the <a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/index.es.html">roundtables</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/resilienthosting/index.es.html">Resilient hosting: legal, technical, and political
geographies</a></li>
<li><a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/decentralisation/index.es.html">Decentralisation and its
discontents</a></li>
<li><a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/trustedservices/index.es.html">How to offer trusted services for a decade or
more?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/roundtables/cryptomasses/index.es.html">User control: Crypto for the
masses?!</a></li>
</ul>
Noteshttp://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/news/notes/index.es.html2014-09-06T11:24:51Z2014-08-07T22:00:00Z
<p>Found some notes on the discussion of <a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./content/workshops/communities/index.es.html">Hacker
Communities</a> in different countries.</p>
Schedulehttp://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/news/schedule/index.es.html2014-09-06T11:24:51Z2014-08-06T22:00:00Z
<p>Some program points of the schedule.</p>
<p><a href="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./news/schedule/schedule.jpg"><img src="http://localhost/backbone409.calafou.org/./news/schedule/200x-schedule.jpg" width="200" height="267" class="img" /></a></p>